Raquel Mazon Jeffers

Director @Community Health Acceleration Partnership Chap

I provide strategic guidance to the principal investors on modernizing the public health system. Initiatives underway include:• Expanding the work on maternal health and equity from NJ into other states• Establishing the NJ Birth Equity Funders Collaborative• Working at national and state level to facilitate use of ARPA funding to strengthen the community-based workforce• Researching new areas of grant-making in maternal mental health and rural health• Developing a strategic communications plan for the FoundationThe Community Health Acceleration Partnership (CHAP) is a venture philanthropy that works to build stronger, more effective community health systems through catalytic investments and strategic engagement. CHAP focuses on vulnerable and underserved populations throughout the United States. It’s mission includes reducing infant and maternal mortality and morbidity and ensuring equity in care and outcomes for mothers and infants of all ethnic groups.